Seriously, United Kingdom? Seriously?
Yesterday, you banned the following sex acts from online porn (as you had already banned them from porn on DVD):
Spanking
Caning
Aggressive whipping
Penetration by any object “associated with violence”
Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of if consensual)
Urolagnia (known as “water sports”)
Role-playing as non-adults
Physical restraint
Humiliation
Female ejaculation
Strangulation
Facesitting
Fisting
Why? Because allowing consenting adults to perform these acts is “harmful to minors.” (You know what? We’re not even going to unpack that. We’re just going to leave that there.) Also, the last three items on the list were identified as potentially “life-endangering”. Alright, UK, we’ll give you strangulation; it can actually be life-threatening. Go ahead and ban actual strangulation in porn, from a workplace safety perspective. But fisting? And – come on – when did facesitting become a deadly oral sex position?
Facesitting: the silent killer.
We can understand where you’re coming from on a lot of these, if we make a real effort. If you believe that seeing violent imagery in porn makes people more likely to be violent with their partners – and there is no evidence to suggest that it does – then, sure, we see how you would identify a lot of these kinks as harmful. Again, though, watching golden showers in porn isn’t going to make someone find their partner and pee on them out of nowhere, like some kind of mindless porno robot.
Even if we assume that watching a humiliation scene will make us scream obscenities at strangers, or that watching a grown adult role play as a naughty schoolboy is suddenly going to make us all unfit to teach or parent, why the heck is female ejaculation on the list?
UK, listen. That’s just how some people orgasm sometimes. It’s not violent. It’s not even a learned behavior, unless someone actually makes an effort to learn it.
If you’re worried that children are getting the bulk of their early sex education from porn, provide more and better sex ed. If you’re worried that porn performers aren’t safe, do some actual research into how to make their workplaces safer. Banning a list of sex acts that kinda squick you out isn’t helping anyone.
Get it together, UK.
h/t The Independent
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